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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455368703321

Autore

Schechner Richard <1934, >

Titolo

The future of ritual : writings on culture and performance / / Richard Schechner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-94693-7

0-415-04689-0

9786610323401

1-280-32340-X

0-203-35915-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Disciplina

792/.01

Soggetti

Theater and society

Performing arts - Philosophy

Rites and ceremonies

Play

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Paperback edition first published by Routledge 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; A prefatory note; Introduction:  Jayaganesh and the avant-garde; Playing; The street is the stage; Waehma:  space, time, identity, and theatre at New Pascua, Arizona; Striding through the cosmos:  movement, belief, politics, and place in the Ramlila of Ramnagar; Wayang kulit in the colonial margin; The future of ritual; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In The Future of Ritual, Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world. An exciting new work by the author of Performance Theory.